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The Sun Interview
Without A Country
Pramila Jayapal On The Problems Immigrants Face
On the morning of September 11, 2001, India-born author Pramila Jayapal was living amid cardboard boxes in her new house in Seattle, Washington, when a friend called from the East Coast and told her to unpack her television. Over the next several days, as Americans struggled with their grief over the deaths caused by the plane hijackings and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, another set of tragedies began to unfold: hate crimes against Arabs and other ethnic minorities swept the country.
MOREEssays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Cristinaland
“I don’t know how the average American does it: house, car, insurance, wedding ring, Viagra (eight bucks a pill!), new roof, water heater, washer and dryer, college tuition, and an antique hardwood dining-room table that weighs two hundred pounds and won’t fit through the front door. Say what you will, the American dream, even the discount version, is one expensive proposition.”
MOREGender Vertigo
As a Lesbian Avenger in San Francisco in the late nineties, I wore a lioness crew cut and crusaded against gender stereotypes. Still I believed fervently in femaleness; the word woman encompassed sisters, lovers, and self. Some nights I read Adrienne Rich’s poetry out loud and longed for a partner about whom I could declare, “We were two lovers of one gender, / we were two women of one generation.” When I met Sarian, I thought she might be the one.
MOREReaders Write
Immigrants
From the time I was fourteen, I dreamed of leaving my home in Scotland and starting a new life in America. I saved every penny so I could pay for plane fare and have some money in my pocket when I arrived.
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